look at last months hotrod mag. the artical "junk yard 4.6 jewel" with a pi head swap on a 98 crown vic w/ 120k miles that intake w/ holly 650 and lt's it made 378hp and w/ a carb spacer it made 396hp. you cant tell me your gonna make that with the stock setup
I have the article right here with me. It was done on a PORTED AND CAMMED Pi swap. But thats it. CNC'd heads, didn't specifiy who ported them though. COMP XE274H cams and springs. It used a Barry Grant 575cfm Mighty Demon and BBK full lenght headers. Nothing special. Just made more power then a stock terminator. 396crank HP. Total cost was like 5 grand, heads and all. Alot cheaper sense most of us already have the motor. Carbs can feed a motor with far for air then most of the intakes for these motors allow. They did rev to 6500rpm. I bet it gets there with ease sense it doesn't have the crappy intake and heads holding it back. Made about 350ftlbs of torqe.
There are other ways to get that extra 100rwhpI would like to see what a 2v FI with a similar set up would do. Say using a fox lake manifold instead of the eldelbrock setup.
But lets face it, the only way to make power on these motors with their small displacement is rev. 6500rpm isn't really that high. Foxlake claims with their intake and heads and cam kit, you get about 100hp. That puts it with in range of this setup. Though much more expensive. This is the cheapest most powerful N/A 2v that one could proably build.
They are referring to FWHP.There is no way the car is making in the 390 range at the wheels with that,the most i have EVER seen a 2valve n/a car make was 380 rwhp with insane high compression.and reving a stock bottom end to 6500 isnt a good idea in my opinion.carb would be cool for a modular swap into a diff car,but why would you get rid of an efficient fule injected set up for a carb,doesnt make sense to me unless your car is a wiring nightmare or it was going into a diff car.
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